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ROBB RELATES PROFESSORS DUAL ROLE
(Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of articles attempting to find out from the professors themselves. “What is a co'.lege professor?")
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By JOE SALTZMAN Daily Trojan Editor
Ask Dr. o. Wesley Robb, head cf the undergraduate department cf religion, what he thinks a college professor is and you'll get two answers.
For he believes that a college professor must be both a teacher and a scholar.
“First, the professor must communicate to his students a love for learning; he must show the relevance cf his own discipline to contemporary man and his knowledge.
“Second, he must creatively enlarge the boundaries of knowledge and enrich human life and understanding.”
^i. Robb insists that teaching is more than the mere r’issemination of knowledge.
“It is the dialogue of communication which not only includes knowledge in the traditional sense, but also a sense of responsibility as a human being who believes that this knowledge will lead to some good end,” he explains.
PAGE THREE Center Would Stimulate Internationalism’
Dr. Robb feels that one of the excitements of teaching is to open up new doors of knowledge, new insishts into life’s meaning which have never before existed for the student—insights which might lead the student to explore these areas in a more significant way.
This is why Dr. Robb considers teaching essentially an art.
He feels that in the dialogue between teacher and student something new emerges something more than the mere transmission of knowledge from the notebook of the tcacher to the notebook of the student.
“True learning must be the identity between the teacher and the student both inside and outside of the classroom.” he says.
“Mv concept cf teaching is as old as Socrates who called himself a ‘midwife of ideas.’ ”
Dr. Robb, votrd one of the outstanding teachers cf USC by the graduating class of 1960, explains that his subject matter—religion and human values—is conducive to a “lecture-discussion” approach.
“In a leoture-discu^sion approach, it is hoped that the readings, the textbook and the insights of the instructor work together to eveke a response in the student regardless of his academic field.”
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He expects that the student will contribute to the discussion and that an exchange of knowledge will take place.
The professor admits that perhaps 10 per cent of the students in his class are verbal in the classroom.
He quickly adds, however, that he finds—through counseling and informal discussions with the students —that many more are involved in the dialogue.
“Dealing with human values and with religion, the very nature of the subject reaches the student on a deeper than intellectual level and necessitates discussing the problems writh them in the light of their own tradition or lack of it,” he say s.
One of the real problems of teaching, as he sees it, is the high degree of specialization in and out of the classroom.
“We become so technically related to a field—in terms of vocabulary and expenditure cf time—that it often tends to hinder communication with students who are not majors in the field of our own speciality,” he explains.
“This threatens the creative responsibilities of the teacher.”
The mechanical teaching approach in which the student loses his identity and become a seat or a row
number also endangers the development of the learning process, he declares.
Dr. Rc'ob finds the responsibilities of a college professcr fall into four key interrelated areas.
First, he feels he must undergo continual preparation for class—adding to his knowledge and comprehension in his field.
Secondly, Dr. Robb feels a responsibility to both the university community and the communitv-at-large.
“The university is not an island unto itself, it has a responsibility to make a contribution to the community. There is an opportunity afforded here which allows the professor to think freely and creatively.
“He is not under any economic duress or pressure and he has an obligation to share his insights with the community.”
Dr. Robb does this through speaking and lecturing in the community.
A third responsibility is finding the necessary time to develop a reflective and creative life.
“The development of this reflective life of the scholar through his reading and his research is a real responsibility cf the university professor.” he
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TROJAN
PAGE POUR Troy Opens Cage Grind; Faces Loaded Lions
VOL. Lll
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1960
NO. 49
Air-Missle Group Gets New Leader
George B. Potter has been ap- the field of air science,” Dean
poinled new director of the USC Aviation and Missile Safety Division. anouneed Dr. Carl Han-cey, dean of I niversity College.
“The appointment <;f Pciter brings to USC one cf the ia-Lon's leading adnvnistrators n
USC Graduate Hits Jackpot On TV Show
A USC physical education in structor and 19S0 graduate Deanna Hupp has good reason to a^ree with the name of th? NBC-TV network show “It Could Be You.”
Mrs. Deanna Hupp and h°r husband were picked from the studio audience Monday evening to be on the show, which was taped for broadcast at 11:30 this morning.
The couple won a d nette set and a maple 1 ing room furniture set for taking part in a skit to show that newlyweds think alike. They were shown the tv.’a groups of furniture, and each was asked separately which he wanted most.
I,« iking; for Davenport “We answered alike because we have be~n looking in the want ads for a davenport." said th teacher. “We don’t have sny idea who told them about us, and we couldn’t have been m.oe surprised,’’ she added.
Mrs. Hupp and her husband, a UCLA student, went to the show as members cT tKe 'V -Chester Lariats, a dance group for which Mrs. TIupp dees choreography. She has traveled from coast to oa=t wth the groan for two summers and plans to g i with th? troupe to Hawaii next summer.
Physical Education Major While she was an undergradu-Bte, Mrs. Kupp received an a'-ademic scholar h p ;.rd majored In physical education. An ou‘-standing student. s’’e was tV only girl from the West Ccast colleges selected to at'e^d last year's White House Conference c Youth.
i H- v’?y said.
His background includes over 6000 thousand hours of military ?-,.i r^rirnt<^c ?| n;]0* time in single, twin and four engine air-crait. He has flown the con ventional propeller reciprocation engine planes, as well as jet and turboprop powered aircraft a:il various tvp^s of helicopters.
Maintenance Specialist
Potter has taught flight theory, propulsion and aerodynam-i for four years as associate professor of air science and tactics at the University of Illinois. He Is a specialist in aircraft maintenance engineering and has done considerable research in instrument approach and landing equipment and techniques, Dean Hancey sa d.
Prior to his appointment as director of aviation and missile safety at USC, Potter was director cf matc.ial of the 314th Troop Carrier Wing, with the r^nk of lieutenant colonel.
Trains Officers
The USC division trains the flying safety officers of the U.S. Army. Navy and Air Force, as well as the safety specialists of the NATO and SEATO air forces.
In addition, aircraft accident investigators for the Federal Aviation Agency and private and business pilots are studying in s ’cial programs designed to prevent aircraft accidents through uni rsity educat:on in the seic ices which form the basis for flying.
Organized in 1953 by Dean Hancey in cooperation with the U. S. Air Force, the Aviation Safety Division has trained mere than 2000 safety specialists from most of the countries of the non-Communist world.
Leadership Felt
“As a professional pilot. I have long been aware of the importance of the work being dene rt USC to reduce aircraft accidents. The leadership furnished by this institution has been felt throughout private, commercial | ?.”d m litary flying." Potter 1 said.
It is undeniably one of the ma-jor factors in the recent sharp downward trend in the accident rate, he added.
MSGR.
PATRICK DIGNAN
. new Newman
Newmanites Will Greet New Mentor
Empty Room Echoes Duties Of Executives
B\ HAL DRAKE Assistant City Editor
The Executive Cabinet failed to meet last night when, due to the absence of a quorum, ASSC President Bill Steigerwalt declared no meeting would be held.
Steigerwalt announced the absence of a quorum when only two other voting members of the Cabinet showed up for the 7 o’clock meeting.
The student body president used a 45-minute waiting period set by the attending members to explain his concept of the Cabinet’s duties and functions.
Acts as One
“The Cabinet, for the most part, exercises the power the ASSC President once held alone,” Steigerwalt said. “O u r jo'j is to provide initiative an 1 leadership for the various cam-j s organizations indirectly and informally.”
Pointing out that the Cabinet’? duties are only implied in the ASSC Constitution, Steigerwalt said that, in his interpretation, the Cabinet should not regulate the day-to-day activities of student organizations.
Newman Club members will officially greet their new chaplain. Msgr. Patrick Dignan, at an cpen house meeting at 7:30 this evening at the Newman Center, 3207 University Ave.
Monseignor Dignan is replacing Father Joseph Weyer, who is nowr a theology teacher at St. John’s Major Seminary in Camarillo.
The new chaplain has been superintendent of Catholic schools in the Los Angeles Archdiocese for the last 21 years.
He was born in Ireland and went to college at the Catholic University of America in Washington. D.C. He holds a PhD in history.
Teaches ‘Apologetics’
Monseignor Dignan, who will join the USC faculty to teach a course in "Apologetics,” has a
personal library of nearly 12,000 student body pays for the opera
books.
NEW FIXTURES—Brightly lighting the walk along the Annex are six new lighting fixtures which were installed Nov. 10, the
Daily Trojan Photo By Chris Maddy
day after a Daily Trojan article pointed out the need for lighting on this dark, isolated walk. The installation is valued at $750.
‘‘Our function is to coordinate all-university functions, not class function,” he noted. “Our only concern with independent committees and councils is to coordinate their activities with the university schedule.
Board of Directors
“Actually,” he continued, ‘‘we are elected by the student body t' be its board of directors. The
Dark Ages End in Annex As New Fixtures Light Way
Plans are being formed by him to increase the club's membership to 500 students. The group now has 40 active members.
Or.e cf his goals is to “reach more of the 1400 Catholic students on this campus and meet their religious, social and academic needs more fully.”
Bids Foreigners Hospitality Chairman Sheila Kelly reports that part of the drive for new members will be a bid for foreign students with a program aimed at expanding their circle of friends.
Where darkness once enveloped the Annex area at the sun's descent, the walk between Hoover and McClintock Sts. is currently well lit with six new' light fixtures.
The new installation, valued at approximately $750, is the result of a recent Daily Trojan editorial which brought the dangerous situation of the unlighted street to the attention of the administration.
Anthony D. Lazzaro, USC assistant business manager and director of its phys:cal plant, said that “the article proved to be a helpful reminder of conditions courage continuity and progress on campus which should be im-in these bodies by creating posi- i proved and will serve to have us five and negative laws and or- investigate once again the best dinances.” he explained. solutions for better lighting in
. , , . areas which are particularly in
“This type of agency is needed tt
to give the student body a well- j nee(‘ 0 1
I lights to date, “situations where- He said that future planning | in students can help with in- °f t-'Sf campus calls for the structive suggestions are always
tioi of student government and we are elected to insure proper adrm'nistration of that government.”
The Cabinet' effect, Steigerwalt added, is direct.
“There are no direct checks on student organizations. We en-
welcomed.’’
Very often, this is t h e only way in which we can learn of conditions which are very disturbing but which are not brought to the attention of university administrators who arc ready and anxious to help, within the financial ability to do so. he said.
“The university is very interested in making the campus safe for students who must cross it at night,” Lazarro pointed out.
However, he explained that t' university is hampered in any lighting attempts by the
removal of the temporary Annex and the nearby buildings.
Belongs to City
The physical plant director also noted that the university is not able to establish any permanent lighting in the Annex because much of the property still belongs to the city of Los A.igeles.
"Our current problem is *o provide lighting that will preserve the aesthetic features of the university ami still be adequate for night students," Laz-arro said.
In the past year, the university has persuaded the city to provide better lighting in the are';s
temporary nature of many of i surrounding the university but the present classroom areas. not owned by it. he concluded.
Dr. Topping, Senate to Host Annual Dinner
President Norman Topping will be host at the annual stu-j dent leaders dinner tonight in the Foyer of Town and Gown at 6 p.m.. with 34 members of the ASSC Cabinet and Senate as his guests.
There will be no arranged pro-j gram since the purpose of the yearly affair is to get students and administrators better acquainted.
Dr. Topping plans no formal speech but will talk about the university's plans for the futur? and answer questions asked by the student leaders.
, Cabinet Members
Attending from the ASSC Cabinet will be ASSC President Bill Steigerwalt. Vice President Sharon Kelly. Secretary Marr’.i Wulfestieg, Senior Class President Ken Unm'cht, Junior Class President Jim Harmon, Sophomore Class President Steve Per-lof and Freshman Class Presi-dent Eugene Mikov.
Guests from the ASSC Senate will be Don Alves, engineering; Tom Bell, mathematical and physical sciences and scholarship standards: Dan Casey, pharmacy; Tim Clark and Steve Crandall.
Others will include Nancy Deutz, dentistry; Edward Dorr, dentistry; Bernard Elias, biological sciences; Dan Epstein, engineering; Bobbie Furbass. so-' cial studies: Warren Gunter, en-’ g' -coring; Sue Hartford, soci.d studies; Hugh Helm, business administration; and Roger Hong, architecture.
Harold Jones, business administration: Bob Kendall, social
stud’es; Donald Levine, pharmacy; Richard LeVine. business administration: Dixie Rice, business; Mike Robinson, communications; Shauna Sorenson, humanities: V'ayne Wedin, public administration; Bob Weiner and ; Carole Whitson w ill also attend.
Other Senators will be Evelyn Wilson, business education; Molly Wilson, physical education; and Mary Linda Woods, human-i ities.
rounded, coordinated activity prog.-am it deserves and wants,” Steigerwalt continued.
URBAN UNIVERSITY
Med School A Monument
(Editor’s Note: This is the fifth in an editorial series loak-ing into the problems of I SC a** one of the nation’. leading urban arhersties).
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B> DAVID FARMER
High on a hill overlooking the city this university has constructed an ebony and silver monument to medicine. It i; th? Seeley Wintersmith Mudd Memorial Laboratory of Medical Sciences.
When this newest of buildings in a .lanued cluster of seven is j ined in its complements near the Los Angeles County Ilonp:-tal. the city will see the full flowering here o[ a life giving.
1 '^-saving segment o' an urb.m university—the School of Medicine.
How did the USC School of
Medicine start? ,T7hy on the main campus
is it not with the rest of the university? What is it; importance to the urban community?
Born in 1885 The School of Mcdicine was hnrn in 1 .85. It struggled to gain a foothold in Los Angeles in a turbulent h story unt l a rebirth in 1928. then settled down ti a steady existence and a working arrangement with the county hospital.
But it * as this very arrangement with L. A. General—“the world’s ljrg--st teaching hospital" that made existence on the USC campus a handicap to the Medical School, for students and faculty found it difficult to link activities here with those at the mammoth faciiit/ near the San I ernardmo Freew ay.
So. when plane matured in June of this year, the whole school moved to the Mudd Memorial Laboratory, the brand-new McKibben Hall -.vh:eh adjoins it and the -«search building near there, built in 1954.
County Hospital Near
The fact that USC's School : of Medicine overlooks not only the city, but also commands a view of the forbidding gray structure that is the Los Angeles County Hospital, is an all-important one.
Student training gained there among the ^nnual 100.00J patients helps an average of 62 new doctors yearly to prove th? advantage of an urban university.
Those doctors are a product of a school which brings the
knowledge of 1200 physician teachers to bear in 185 courses. The instruction staff is composed in large measure of working physicians and surgeons who donate part of their time to the school.
Students who gain admission ar lucky—and highly qualified —for 68 each year are selected from up to 700 applicants.
Graduate Classes
Does the school do anything be ides “m; ke new doctors ”? Yes, this oldest private medical school in the W e s t. headed by Dean Clayton G. Loosli, M. D., helps practicing physicians to keep abreast of changing developments in the field through post graduate classes.
Last year 2729 doctors took advantage of the service. A cor-(Continued on Page 3)
Trojan Hits Spot
He added that h? thought th«5 Daily Trojan had hit upon one of the most critical areas when it discussed the An ex.
“We are mindful of the need, and the campus police, to nam? i one group, has been asked to |. l a k e recomn endations to improve the situation,” he noted.
The light.;, set at 100 ft. inter-| vals, are 12 ft. high and 2 it. 1 a’iove the fence along the walk. They were installel Nov. 10, the day after the Daily Trojan editorial.
Save Costs
The work was done by the operation and maintenance department at a nominal cost since certain light fixtures which were removed from the Dental Clinic at the time the dental addition was constructed were available. Thus, while the lights are valued at S750, the cost to the university was greatly reduced.
Touring Conservationist Sees Need of U.S. Backing
United States support for a 1 Conferring with USC econo-L a t i n-American conservation mists, the Chilean said that program would be an important j many areas of the world are step in cementing inter-Ameri- j learning the lessons cf conser-
It took the work.
one day to complete
While Lazzaro noted that no rc sponse from students, facultv or administrators had been re-
can relations and a victory against the threat of Communism.
Gaining this support and in-augration of such a program is one of the missions of Rafael Elizalde. Chilean author, editor and conservationist, who is currently visiting USC, where he was an economic., student in 1937-38.
“First of all, we must make the people of Latin America understand the need for conservation.’’ Elizalde says. “Conservation is one of Chile’s greatest needs at the moment—and one of which her people are almost totally unaware.
German Settlement
“Only in the southern part cf Chile, settled to a great extent by German people more than 100 years ago, is there some evidence of sound practices in the conservation of all natural re-
vation “the hard way”—"much as the United States learned ; seme of these lessens during the drought years.
“Italy and France have had to pay attention to conservation more and more, not only as a
cut even the smallest shrub. The great Black Forest of Germany j is a living monument to good conservation practices.”
In the U.S. for a three-month tour of conservation and reclamation projects as a guest of i the International Cooperation Administration. Elizalde has visited in both the Mic west and West. He will go to Washington
program bearing on food-pro- early in December and later to ducing economics, but because of New York to fulfill writing corn-such natural threats as ava- mitments.
lanches,” Elizalde told USC fac- On his current tour he is
ulty members. taking a series of pictures which
“In Chile, it is safe to say will help illustrate stories he is that we probably suffered great- preparing for American. Chilean er losses from the disastrous and Argentinian newspapers and
ceived on the installation of the j sources,” Elizalde points out. j
earthquakes of last spring because of the lack of conservation practices as seen in the indiscriminate destruction of forests.”
‘Masters’ of Program
The whole world has much yet to learn from some of the "masters of conservation” such as the Germans and the Swiss. Elizalde believes. “In Switzerland it is against the law to
magazines.
Needs Improvement
Remembering the U.S. of the thirties when he lived here as the son of a South American diplomat and attended USC. Elizalde believes that the U.S. had made great strides in conserving all natural resources.
"But there is still room for improvement — even m this country,” he says.

ROBB RELATES PROFESSORS DUAL ROLE
(Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of articles attempting to find out from the professors themselves. “What is a co'.lege professor?")
* * *
By JOE SALTZMAN Daily Trojan Editor
Ask Dr. o. Wesley Robb, head cf the undergraduate department cf religion, what he thinks a college professor is and you'll get two answers.
For he believes that a college professor must be both a teacher and a scholar.
“First, the professor must communicate to his students a love for learning; he must show the relevance cf his own discipline to contemporary man and his knowledge.
“Second, he must creatively enlarge the boundaries of knowledge and enrich human life and understanding.”
^i. Robb insists that teaching is more than the mere r’issemination of knowledge.
“It is the dialogue of communication which not only includes knowledge in the traditional sense, but also a sense of responsibility as a human being who believes that this knowledge will lead to some good end,” he explains.
PAGE THREE Center Would Stimulate Internationalism’
Dr. Robb feels that one of the excitements of teaching is to open up new doors of knowledge, new insishts into life’s meaning which have never before existed for the student—insights which might lead the student to explore these areas in a more significant way.
This is why Dr. Robb considers teaching essentially an art.
He feels that in the dialogue between teacher and student something new emerges something more than the mere transmission of knowledge from the notebook of the tcacher to the notebook of the student.
“True learning must be the identity between the teacher and the student both inside and outside of the classroom.” he says.
“Mv concept cf teaching is as old as Socrates who called himself a ‘midwife of ideas.’ ”
Dr. Robb, votrd one of the outstanding teachers cf USC by the graduating class of 1960, explains that his subject matter—religion and human values—is conducive to a “lecture-discussion” approach.
“In a leoture-discu^sion approach, it is hoped that the readings, the textbook and the insights of the instructor work together to eveke a response in the student regardless of his academic field.”
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He expects that the student will contribute to the discussion and that an exchange of knowledge will take place.
The professor admits that perhaps 10 per cent of the students in his class are verbal in the classroom.
He quickly adds, however, that he finds—through counseling and informal discussions with the students —that many more are involved in the dialogue.
“Dealing with human values and with religion, the very nature of the subject reaches the student on a deeper than intellectual level and necessitates discussing the problems writh them in the light of their own tradition or lack of it,” he say s.
One of the real problems of teaching, as he sees it, is the high degree of specialization in and out of the classroom.
“We become so technically related to a field—in terms of vocabulary and expenditure cf time—that it often tends to hinder communication with students who are not majors in the field of our own speciality,” he explains.
“This threatens the creative responsibilities of the teacher.”
The mechanical teaching approach in which the student loses his identity and become a seat or a row
number also endangers the development of the learning process, he declares.
Dr. Rc'ob finds the responsibilities of a college professcr fall into four key interrelated areas.
First, he feels he must undergo continual preparation for class—adding to his knowledge and comprehension in his field.
Secondly, Dr. Robb feels a responsibility to both the university community and the communitv-at-large.
“The university is not an island unto itself, it has a responsibility to make a contribution to the community. There is an opportunity afforded here which allows the professor to think freely and creatively.
“He is not under any economic duress or pressure and he has an obligation to share his insights with the community.”
Dr. Robb does this through speaking and lecturing in the community.
A third responsibility is finding the necessary time to develop a reflective and creative life.
“The development of this reflective life of the scholar through his reading and his research is a real responsibility cf the university professor.” he
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C DAVID FARMER
High on a hill overlooking the city this university has constructed an ebony and silver monument to medicine. It i; th? Seeley Wintersmith Mudd Memorial Laboratory of Medical Sciences.
When this newest of buildings in a .lanued cluster of seven is j ined in its complements near the Los Angeles County Ilonp:-tal. the city will see the full flowering here o[ a life giving.
1 '^-saving segment o' an urb.m university—the School of Medicine.
How did the USC School of
Medicine start? ,T7hy on the main campus
is it not with the rest of the university? What is it; importance to the urban community?
Born in 1885 The School of Mcdicine was hnrn in 1 .85. It struggled to gain a foothold in Los Angeles in a turbulent h story unt l a rebirth in 1928. then settled down ti a steady existence and a working arrangement with the county hospital.
But it * as this very arrangement with L. A. General—“the world’s ljrg--st teaching hospital" that made existence on the USC campus a handicap to the Medical School, for students and faculty found it difficult to link activities here with those at the mammoth faciiit/ near the San I ernardmo Freew ay.
So. when plane matured in June of this year, the whole school moved to the Mudd Memorial Laboratory, the brand-new McKibben Hall -.vh:eh adjoins it and the -«search building near there, built in 1954.
County Hospital Near
The fact that USC's School : of Medicine overlooks not only the city, but also commands a view of the forbidding gray structure that is the Los Angeles County Hospital, is an all-important one.
Student training gained there among the ^nnual 100.00J patients helps an average of 62 new doctors yearly to prove th? advantage of an urban university.
Those doctors are a product of a school which brings the
knowledge of 1200 physician teachers to bear in 185 courses. The instruction staff is composed in large measure of working physicians and surgeons who donate part of their time to the school.
Students who gain admission ar lucky—and highly qualified —for 68 each year are selected from up to 700 applicants.
Graduate Classes
Does the school do anything be ides “m; ke new doctors ”? Yes, this oldest private medical school in the W e s t. headed by Dean Clayton G. Loosli, M. D., helps practicing physicians to keep abreast of changing developments in the field through post graduate classes.
Last year 2729 doctors took advantage of the service. A cor-(Continued on Page 3)
Trojan Hits Spot
He added that h? thought th«5 Daily Trojan had hit upon one of the most critical areas when it discussed the An ex.
“We are mindful of the need, and the campus police, to nam? i one group, has been asked to |. l a k e recomn endations to improve the situation,” he noted.
The light.;, set at 100 ft. inter-| vals, are 12 ft. high and 2 it. 1 a’iove the fence along the walk. They were installel Nov. 10, the day after the Daily Trojan editorial.
Save Costs
The work was done by the operation and maintenance department at a nominal cost since certain light fixtures which were removed from the Dental Clinic at the time the dental addition was constructed were available. Thus, while the lights are valued at S750, the cost to the university was greatly reduced.
Touring Conservationist Sees Need of U.S. Backing
United States support for a 1 Conferring with USC econo-L a t i n-American conservation mists, the Chilean said that program would be an important j many areas of the world are step in cementing inter-Ameri- j learning the lessons cf conser-
It took the work.
one day to complete
While Lazzaro noted that no rc sponse from students, facultv or administrators had been re-
can relations and a victory against the threat of Communism.
Gaining this support and in-augration of such a program is one of the missions of Rafael Elizalde. Chilean author, editor and conservationist, who is currently visiting USC, where he was an economic., student in 1937-38.
“First of all, we must make the people of Latin America understand the need for conservation.’’ Elizalde says. “Conservation is one of Chile’s greatest needs at the moment—and one of which her people are almost totally unaware.
German Settlement
“Only in the southern part cf Chile, settled to a great extent by German people more than 100 years ago, is there some evidence of sound practices in the conservation of all natural re-
vation “the hard way”—"much as the United States learned ; seme of these lessens during the drought years.
“Italy and France have had to pay attention to conservation more and more, not only as a
cut even the smallest shrub. The great Black Forest of Germany j is a living monument to good conservation practices.”
In the U.S. for a three-month tour of conservation and reclamation projects as a guest of i the International Cooperation Administration. Elizalde has visited in both the Mic west and West. He will go to Washington
program bearing on food-pro- early in December and later to ducing economics, but because of New York to fulfill writing corn-such natural threats as ava- mitments.
lanches,” Elizalde told USC fac- On his current tour he is
ulty members. taking a series of pictures which
“In Chile, it is safe to say will help illustrate stories he is that we probably suffered great- preparing for American. Chilean er losses from the disastrous and Argentinian newspapers and
ceived on the installation of the j sources,” Elizalde points out. j
earthquakes of last spring because of the lack of conservation practices as seen in the indiscriminate destruction of forests.”
‘Masters’ of Program
The whole world has much yet to learn from some of the "masters of conservation” such as the Germans and the Swiss. Elizalde believes. “In Switzerland it is against the law to
magazines.
Needs Improvement
Remembering the U.S. of the thirties when he lived here as the son of a South American diplomat and attended USC. Elizalde believes that the U.S. had made great strides in conserving all natural resources.
"But there is still room for improvement — even m this country,” he says.